Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus

Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus (c. 200 – aft. 236 AD) was a Roman Senator.

Life

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He was consul ordinarius in 236 as the colleague of emperor Maximinus I.[1] Maximus was the son of Pupienus, later emperor, and Sextia Cethegilla.[2]

He married Cornelia Marullina, born c. 205, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cossonius Scipio Salvidius Orfitus and wife, and had two children: Pupiena Sextia Paulina Cethegilla, born c. 225 and named after her paternal aunt, who married Marcus Maecius Probus, and Publius Pupienus Maximus.

Family tree

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Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens
consul ordinarius
Marcus Pupienus Maximus
Quintus Tineius Clemens
consul ordinarius
Quintius Tineius Rufus
consul 182
Quintus Tineius Sacerdos
consul suffectus
∞ Volusia Laodice
Pupienus
Roman Emperor
(238)
∞ Sextia Cethegilla
Marcus Ulpius Leurus
senator
TineiaTitus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus
consul suffectus
Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus
consul ordinarius
∞ Cornelia Marullina
Pupiena Sextia Paulina CethegillaMarcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus
suffect consul
Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus
proconsul
∞ Ovinia Paterna

References

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  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 476
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, Emperors and biography : studies in the Historia Augusta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), pp. 173f
Political offices
Preceded by Consul of the Roman Empire
236
with Maximinus Thrax
Succeeded by